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IT is news certain to have Napoleon turning in his grave - but the latest culinary fashion in Paris this autumn is Fish and Chips, British Style.
The well known news agency Agence France-Presse has described 'le fish and chips Anglais' as one of the gastronomic fashions of the season.
They are on sale at the fashionable Publicis Drugstore Brasserie at one end of the even more fishionable Champs Elysees. The Brassierie's chief executive said French people had fallen in love with this most British of dishes. They are really popular both at lunchtime and in the evening," he added.
The director of influential food consultancy Cate Marketing, Remy Lucas, said: "The number of restaurants serving it is not enormous but trendy people are starting to take to this product."
Agence France Presse says that although fish and chips has been available in France for years, it has almost always been in British-style restaurants and pubs. Now it is beginning to appear on the menus of fashionable French restaurants and at gastronomic festivals such as MIAM, an annual event for Parisian food buffs that this year asked six leading chefs to prepare their versions of fish and chips.
The French are not the only foreigners to take to British fish and chips. Eralier this year pop icon Lady Gaga fell in love with haddock and chips when her manager sent out for some during a concert in Cardiff that she demanded the recipe to take back to America.
Back in the Publicis Drugstore in Paris, the French version is made with lighter batter and the chips are also lighter and thinner. After all, the French claim to have invted the chip which is why they are called French Fries everywhere (except Britain!)
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